Rare and ancient seated statuette holding... - Lot 59 - Ader

Lot 59
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Rare and ancient seated statuette holding... - Lot 59 - Ader
Rare and ancient seated statuette holding a cup in the left hand. This very beautiful Batéba sculpture with its purity and subtle movement, in a rare position and gesture, is also one of the rare testimonies of the works of the first generation that have come down to us of a style that has "set a school" within the Lobi arts and whose most famous artist to represent it is the famous Sikiri Kambiré. According to a field investigation by Daniela Bognolo, it would be an artist named Sona Pale who would be at the origin of this style, having worked around 1860 in the village of Gboko Gbalathi. In any case, our sculpture is, with another known sculpture in the old Maine Durieu collection, the oldest testimony to the origins of this characteristic style. These two works, although in different postures, contain identical archaisms such as the wearing of a labret and a yuù- bilami hairstyle, and testify beyond their great antiquity to the same very sure hand of a sculptor who mastered his art. Lobi, Burkina Faso Wood, beaded belts, missing right arm (old breakage), superb patina of use. H. 38 cm Provenance : Christian Debenest Collection.
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